New York Laws
Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions
161 - Certain Searches, the Filing of Papers, and Certified Copies, Ordered by State Officers to Be Gratuitous.

§ 161. Certain searches, the filing of papers, and certified copies,
ordered by state officers to be gratuitous. 1. Each of the following
officers, to wit: the secretary of state, the comptroller, the
commissioner of taxation and finance, the attorney general, the public
service commission, the commissioner of agriculture and markets, the
commissioner of transportation, the industrial commissioner, the
chairman of the state labor relations board, the chairman of the state
liquor authority, the superintendent of financial services, the state
commissioner of human rights, the commissioner of general services and
the commissioner of housing and community renewal may require search to
be made, in the office of any of the others, or of a county clerk or of
the clerk of a court of record, for any record, document, or paper,
where he or she deems it necessary for the discharge of his or her
official duties, and a copy thereof, or extracts therefrom, to be made
and officially certified or exemplified, without the payment of any fee
or charge.

2. No salaried officer of any city, county, or court, of this state,
or any public officer who is required by law to deposit the fees
collected in his office into any city or county treasury, shall be
entitled to receive from said state officers, or from a division or
bureau of said state officers, any fee for entering, filing, docketing,
registering or recording any paper, record or document required by law
to be filed in the office of any such city, county, court, or public
officer, or for a certified copy, transcript or extract of any paper,
document or record on file in such office which he deems necessary for
the discharge of his official duties, and every such officer must, upon
application therefor, furnish to said state officers, or a division or
bureau of said state officers, for such official use, a certified copy,
extract or transcript of any paper, record or document on file in such
office without the payment of the fee prescribed by law therefor; nor
shall any court clerk demand or receive from any of said state officers,
or from a division or bureau of said state officers, any trial or jury
fee upon filing in any court in this state a note of issue or demand for
a jury trial.

3. Such salaried officer shall also furnish the services herein
specified to any state department or a bureau or agency thereof acting
as an agent of the state in the acquisition of real property, without
the payment of any fee or charge.

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